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頹
简 颓 · 繁 頹Mandarin · pinyin tuí
Meanings
- to crumble
- to collapse
- to decline
- to decay
- decadent
- dejected
- dispirited
- balding
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2 · tui2
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Rime Cantonese 粵拼
teoi4
Cantonese word readings for 頹. This lexicon supplies readings, not definitions.
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- (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) alternative form of 禿 /秃 (tū, “bald”)
- to fall; to drop
- to collapse; to disintegrate
- to decline; to degenerate; to decay; to become dilapidated
- dejected; depressed; down; listless
- aged; old and feeble
- (ideophonic) respectful and submissive
- (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) genitals of a male horse
- (Cantonese) to be dispirited; to be depressed
- a surname
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